A former newspaper editor who went missing in Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath was found dead in a sandpit 19 miles from his home, according to a new report.

Jim Simmon, 63, was reported missing by his son on Aug. 30, and his waterlogged body was discovered Tuesday by a man looking for cattle in Fort Bend, Texas, police spokesperson Bob Haenel said.

“Jim Simmon, my friend, my former editor, fellow product of 1954, fellow kayaker, an irascible blessing to Texas who could say a funny lot with a grunt and write like a Hunter S. Thompson of the Gulf Coast, is lost to us now on a permanent basis,” longtime friend Alan Bernstein told the Houston Chronicle. “I hope, [he] is enjoying perpetual roots music in another sphere.”

Simmon, was afflicted by early onset dementia and walked out of the Montrose, Texas, home where he had braved the deadly storm with his son Luke, saying he was headed towards his favorite coffee shop.

He called his son six hours later from the Fort Bend Aquatic Center, but by the time Luke got to the center, Simmon had vanished again.

Simmon’s ex-wife Jamie Kaelin was in tears as she recounted the two-week search that ensued, saying that the former editor was still functional and in good shape.

“You can ask him anything about the Astros, music, current events, literature, books,” she said to the New York Times in an interview last week. “I would drive him around the city and say, like, ‘Oh, remember when we went there?’ and jog his memory. And I’d say, ‘Which way should we go?’ and he would pretty much tell me.”

He could also still spout off his name, address and social security number, his ex-wife said.

“We had lead after lead,” she told the Chronicle. “I just kept thinking we were going to find him.”

Fort Bend police spokesman Bob Haenel said it appeared Simmon’s had drowned, but that cops were still investigating and had not determined whether the death was storm-related.

Simmon was the city editor of The Bryan-College Station Eagle from 2010 to 2015 and served as the Houston Chronicle’s political editor in the early 1990s, before becoming editor of the Houston Press.